iTech Solutions Group Shortlisted for Prestigious Cyber Security Award

DANBURY, CONN. – iTech Solutions announces it has been shortlisted for a prestigious Cyber Security award. The category is for the best “Cyber Awareness Plan of the Year”. The winning plan will be presented to the world’s media at a prestigious black tie event in London on June 21st 2018, sponsored by Cyber Security Awards, a leading awards event for the cyber security industry. The Cyber Security Awards, established in 2014, reward the best individuals, teams and companies within the cyber security industry.

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IBM Names Mr. Pete Massiello, President and CEO of iTECH SOLUTIONS GROUP, LLC. First Power Lifetime Champion

DANBURY, CT — iTech Solutions Group, LLC.

IBM established the IBM Champions program to recognize the expertise in and extraordinary support and advocacy for IBM technology, communities, and solutions. IBM Champions are peer-nominated members of the user community who evangelize for the platform, and are not IBM employees. The “POWER” Champion class was started 2011. Massiello has been named a Lifetime POWER Champion, the first person to receive this honor.

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What are the True Costs of Staying on Old Hardware?

We all know that one of the major benefits of our beloved IBM i is that it runs and runs well.  We don’t reboot the IBM i to correct application errors.  Our users don’t get a blue screen of death.  The hardware is designed to support businesses with high availability needs.  This also makes it possible to keep hardware running for 10 years or more.

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Moving IBM i to POWER9

It’s always exciting when IBM announces new hardware and today is no exception! We have been hearing about the new POWER9 Chip for several months. In December IBM released the first set of LINUX machines powered by P9.  Now the next set of servers on the POWER9 chip is announced – the Scale-out line.  IBM i has been running POWER chips since the POWER5 introduction in 2004 and the roadmap below illustrates the history and future of this powerful technology. Welcome POWER9!

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